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...Internet economy, making the impossible (or even the implausible) possible. The speed of the Net has served to condense into Case's short business life--he founded AOL 15 years ago--several lifetimes' worth of hardscrabble learning. AOL has had plenty of near death experiences--the launch of Microsoft's online service in 1995, the day AOL's entire service blipped off-line in 1996, the easily won reputation as America On Hold after the service opened itself up to unlimited usage. You might argue that Case was in a no-lose situation, riding the biggest boom in the history...
...Though Microsoft's lawyers haven't had a chance to make that statement yet, company spokesmen did ballyhoo the AOL-Time Warner deal as proof that the high-tech industries in which Microsoft competes--unfairly, according to the Justice Department--are evolving so quickly and convulsively that to assert Microsoft exerts monopolistic power is "almost comical...
Judge Jackson, your honor, Microsoft would like to enter into the record the exhibit marked "AOL Time Warner...
...simple enough - just as the nation is experiencing its first labor shortages in decades, workers are in a position to make greater demands. Even tech firms, the Wild West of modern American capitalism, have gone union in recent years, with membership up in 1999 at IBM, Amazon.com and Microsoft...
Even as the company has grown to become the king of the data network, it has remained, in many consumers' minds, a question mark. Ask most people what Microsoft or Intel do, and they'll tell you. But Cisco? "I don't know," says Harriet Sumner, 30, a customer-service manager for a computer-game company, "but I own the stock...